a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation).

playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower.

Having the shape of a wide-mouthed bell; campanulate.

An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade. A species of Amaryllis (Amaryllis belladonna); the belladonna lily.

A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

A South and Central American bird of the genus Casmarhincos, and family Cotingid/, of several species; the campanero. The Myzantha melanophrys of Australia.

trousers with legs that flare; commonly worn as part of a sailor's uniform; -- such absurdly wide hems were also fashionable in the 1960s.

someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.

A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.

One versed in belles-lettres.

Hung with a bell or bells.

A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres.

A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple.

A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid.

Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial.

Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.

In a bellicose manner.

Bellicose.

Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.

The quality of being belligerent.

A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.

Mighty in war; armipotent.

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.

Lead colic.

The goddess of war.

A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.

One who, or that which, bellows.

An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.

Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.

A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.

A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.

The depression in the middle of the abdomen in humans left as a residue of the umbilical cord; the umbilicus; the navel{1}.

a vigorous, loud laugh, expressing a strong amusement.

to approach (a counter) and stand in front of it; -- used mostly in the phrase belly up to the bar (i.e. to a counter in a saloon).

One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.

to land on the underside without the landing gear; -- of airplanes.

to laugh a deep, hearty laugh.

Pinched with hunger; starved.

defunct; bankrupt; -- used mostly of commercial organizations; often used in the phrase go belly-up, i. e. to go bankrupt.

to complain, especially in a whining or grumbling manner; to gripe.

a person who complains habitually, usually about everyday minor problems.

A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.

Costive; constipated.

An apron or covering for the front of the person.

To revel; to feast.

As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough.

The capital city of Belize. Population (2000) = 5,845.

To lock, or fasten as with a lock.

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.

To be deserved by.

That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects.

Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants. A native or an inhabitant of Beloochistan.

To act the lord over.

To love.

In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.

To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to.

A grandfather, or ancestor.

A lewd man; also, a bully.

To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.

Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl.

See Beltane.

The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

lacking a belt.

A cetacean allied to the dolphins.

To bespatter, as with mud.

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

To make mad.

To mangle; to tear asunder.

To mask; to conceal.

To master thoroughly.

To maul or beat severely; to bruise.

To bewilder.

To make mean; to lower.

To meet.

To mete.

To mingle; to mix.

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

To envelop in mist.

To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

One who bemoans.

To mock; to ridicule.

To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

The sign /; the same as B flat.

To make monstrous or like a monster.

To mourn over.

To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.

An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

To promise; to name.

To sit on a seat of justice.

One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

A band.

Capable of being bent.

to reproduce by the Benday method.

One who, or that which, bends.

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

Diagonally.

Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.

A prayer; boon.

See Neaped.

In a lower place; underneath.

An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.

A married man, or a man newly married.

Having mild and salubrious qualities.

One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.

The act of blessing.

A book of benedictions.

A collected series of benedictions.

Tending to bless.

Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.